House Speaker John Boehner and GOP leadership have removed several conservative House members from their respective powerful committee positions, Breitbart News has learned.

Effective next Congress, leadership pulled Kansas Republican Rep. Tim Huelskamp, Michigan Republican Rep. Justin Amash and Arizona Republican Rep. David Schweikert off committees from which they could exert conservative pressure on fiscal matters. Amash and Huelskamp were pulled from the Budget Committee and Schweikert from the Financial Services Committee.

Huelskamp, a freshman elected during the 2010 tea party wave, thinks the leadership move to pull him from the powerful committee is revenge for him standing up for conservatism. It is little wonder why Congress has a 16 percent approval rating: Americans send principled representatives to change Washington and get punished in return, Huelskamp said in a Monday night statement. The GOP leadership might think they have silenced conservatives, but removing me and others from key committees only confirms our conservative convictions. This is clearly a vindictive move, and a sure sign that the GOP Establishment cannot handle disagreement."

Couldn’t they find a group of conservatives that is one more than the margin that GOP holds, and that group will threaten to not caucus with Republicans. Is Boehner willing to lose his position to Pelosi? (He might be)

Republicans (meaning Establishment) are all about “talking the talk”. They are not going to do anything serious but go along to get along with the Dems. I gave up when i realized that nobody is going to jail over F&F and I doubt that anything will happen in the end with Benghazi or the other scandals and they will cave in to Obama with the fiscal cliff, oh I’m sure there will more hearings and make threats about how serious they are on the Sunday Morning shows but its all a show

Because our GOPe significant others really do love us, really don't mean it when they beat us senseless and we just KNOW we can change them. Now, back to the abused spouse shelter and another ice pack for that nasty "slip and fall" bruise... /s

So - what can “we” do? I get flamed mercilessly when I suggest its time for the TEA Party/Conservatives to join forces with the real Libertarians (not the idiot dope-head libertarians) and leave the GOP.

RE :”House Speaker John Boehner and GOP leadership have removed several conservative House members from their respective powerful committee positions, Breitbart News has learned. Effective next Congress, leadership pulled Kansas Republican Rep. Tim Huelskamp, Michigan Republican Rep. Justin Amash and Arizona Republican Rep. David Schweikert off committees from which they could exert conservative pressure on fiscal matters. Amash and Huelskamp were pulled from the Budget Committee and Schweikert from the Financial Services Committee.

They are not going to do anything serious but go along to get along with the Dems.

I've come to the conclusion that total economic collapse is inevitable. On the plus side, Eastern Europe emerged rapidly from the ruins of communism. A quick collapse, with a default on the debt, could force a return to the economic "state of nature" --a market economy.

OTOH, the collapse could be blamed on "capitalism." That thought keeps me up at night.

Many conservatives are still connected to the umbilical cord of the GOP as far as money and access in and out of the corridors of Congress...it’s fear that’s keeping them in line somewhat. Not all of them of course but many

I’m convinced they are more concerned with their chairs and committees than they are at saving this country.++

Mark mentioned this on tonight’s show. Boenher, Cantor and the other guy - don’t know his name - but he’s third in command - need to be primaried. Guess ole Bonehead wants to lose control of the House again??? Sounds like it -he’s such a useless tool.

Yes, Republians in the DC bubble who think they haven’t been liberal enough always win elections, right? Move government out of DC, do everything by teleconferencing from their home constituencies. Keep people out of the bubble.

And this is exactly why 2 million voters did not go to the polls on election day.

Glenn Beck yesterday was talking about how 0bama winning was not due to voter fraud as it was a meme they heard over and over at many of the book signings.

For all the Glenn Beck ‘reveals’ at times his naivette is astounding. Yes, the democrats had voter fraud, but the GOP threw the election.

Yes, there is a purge going on. They must shutdown the voice of the people within their own ranks....if they won’t toe the line.

Hitler did it, Stalin did it, Mao did it...right now it is committees, later the party itself, and then they ...if they are still around speaking of freedom, liberty, and constitution...death.

You think Allen West’s election and vote fraud was all about the democrats cheating? Think again.

Make no mistake about how I feel about this. Partyline voting got us into this mess. Partyline voting because that’s what the GOP-e said to do. Blame those 2 million voters who didn’t go to the polls to vote for Mitt...those brave hearts that condemned our nation to a living hell did us a favor.

It will strip away the mask of the GOP and reveal the treason in our own house.

And this is exactly why 2 million voters did not go to the polls on election day.

Glenn Beck yesterday was talking about how 0bama winning was not due to voter fraud as it was a meme they heard over and over at many of the book signings.

For all the Glenn Beck ‘reveals’ at times his naivette is astounding. Yes, the democrats had voter fraud, but the GOP threw the election.

Yes, there is a purge going on. They must shutdown the voice of the people within their own ranks....if they won’t toe the line.

Hitler did it, Stalin did it, Mao did it...right now it is committees, later the party itself, and then they ...if they are still around speaking of freedom, liberty, and constitution...death.

You think Allen West’s election and vote fraud was all about the democrats cheating? Think again.

Make no mistake about how I feel about this. Partyline voting got us into this mess. Partyline voting because that’s what the GOP-e said to do. Blame those 2 million voters who didn’t go to the polls to vote for Mitt...those brave hearts that condemned our nation to a living hell did us a favor.

It will strip away the mask of the GOP and reveal the treason in our own house.

The problem with your numbers is that millions of independents who had voted for Obama in 2008 switched to Obama in 2012. Which means that millions of Republicans who voted for McCain in 2008 stayed home in 2008. In spite of the large swing in independent voters, Romney barely topped McCain’s mediocre effort from 2008. The GOP has a serious problem with its base and this purge of conservatives - including the disgraceful sell-out of Allan West - will ensure that the turnout of the base continues to erode.

We no longer have a two party system, just one party with two branches. The parties have merged together so that you can’t tell any difference between them. Both have been in control of congress and the white house. Did either of them:

(1) Put Social Security in a separate interest drawing account, like it was when it was created?
(2) Pay any amount on the national debt?
(3) Reduce the size of government?

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